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Monthly Archives: September, 2015

S in Ringtons, Tea in Heaton

The imposing white brick Ringtons building on Algernon Road bears the date ‘1924’, indicating that the famous tea company has Heaton connections going back...

An exile remembers: Part 1 – the old house

Heaton History Group is often contacted by people who used to live in the neighbourhood and have vivid and usually fond recollections. We love...

Songs of the Ouseburn

On Wednesday 16 December, we are delighted to welcome well-known Tyneside Irish piper Joe Crane to present 'Songs of the Ouseburn'. This is how Joe...

Heaton Road Shops: then and now

Our full-colour 32 page book takes you on a walk up Heaton Road, showing you what some of the shops used to look like, telling...

The signalman and his daughter

Little did we think, when we published 'Dead Man's Handle', the story of a railway accident that took place almost ninety years ago, that...

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